The Body and the Sacred in Contemporary Italian Women Writers

Author

Laura R Feola, The Graduate Center, City University of New YorkFollow

Date of Degree

9-2018

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Ph.D.

Program

Comparative Literature

Advisor

Giancarlo Lombardi

Committee Members

Monica Calabritto

Paolo Fasoli

Subject Categories

Comparative Literature | Italian Literature

Keywords

Maraini, Ferrante, Campo, Merini

Abstract

My dissertation explores the presence of what has been called the “persistence of the sacred” in modern and contemporary Western culture. More specifically, I focus on the intertwining dimensions of the human body and the experience of the sacred in selected works by Dacia Maraini, Elena Ferrante, Cristina Campo, and Alda Merini. Despite their different voices, and the “secular” or “religious” labels with which each of these Italian authors could be defined or confined, I identify and analyze patterns, similarities, and differences in the interwoven realities of the body and the sacred present in their works.[1]

[1] See Snyder, Falasca-Zamponi, and Wittman.

Recommended Citation

Feola, Laura R, "The Body and the Sacred in Contemporary Italian Women Writers" (2018). CUNY Academic Works.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/2814